>News (reposted from last thread)
>>107547669 - Anon posts some soldering project, discussion about desoldering happens right after
>>107551454 - Cheese grater mouse already collecting gunk
>>107553997 - Notlego anon's package seems to have worked out, no missing parts
>>107559172 - Superbuy review
>>107559329 - Cheap wristwatch anon reports that they still like theirs.
>>107563247 - After 8 years of service, anon now owns a xiaomi IED
>>107566314 - Another anon gets a step counter

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Unrelated, but what in the actual fuck are these new captchas.
They feel like some mkultra activation shit kek.

>>107580925
Are you using a VPN? I've never had more than one step.
I can solve these quicker than the old ones.

>>107580943
Pretty sure it's because of thread creation.
For normal posts I just get a single step, which then also counts for a while so the next few posts I don't need a captcha at all.
Currently it breaks 4chanX and 4chanXT if you don't need a captcha as the script prevents you from posting then, but I suppose that'll get fixed soon.

I suppose if it makes less people post their absolute low effort slop on the catalogue it may improve discussion, I was just really confused first.

>>107580982
>a single step, which then also counts for a while so the next few posts I don't need a captcha at all
Oh yea I noticed that it seems to count for much longer now.
Not sure if that is true but I feel like previously it was one captcha for two posts.

>>107580943
it's based on whether cloudflare flags your browser as high risk (meaning they can't fingerprint you)
i'm on ungoogled chromium with no vpn and i get all 3 steps

>>107581170
Well I'm running hardened firefox with stuff like ad nauseam running, so whenever it's a service that discriminates based on cattle status I get put in the peasant tier.
Well worth it though, fuck em.

Conclusion to >>107515369, it arrived today.
Everything I ordered is in it, nothing is broken, and the package has not been tampered with.
So, in the end, I got $10 for receiving my order 2 weeks too late, which equates to a literal 50% discount on the price of the order, thanks Temu.

And what's the deal with this stupid captcha? This one is literally much easier for bots. I don't get it...

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>color
look at the picture

decided to grab a new 8.4in tablet as soon as i'm done collecting the shopping credit this month. i'm then going to try cash in around $20-25 worth of gems and the $4.50 from merge boss and then stack ti with around 11% cashback
man this AI madness, trump tariffs making everything expensive and overall inflation made me spend so much these 2 months

>Government wants to add an additional flat import fee per SKU starting January
>EU will do the same later in 2026 and plans are to stack both
>Gonna spend €5 more per SKU + tax from now on
>Basic DIY electric projects and repairs will become unaffordable
Meanwhile dropshoppers will get to continue scamming people with their 500% markups and refusing to honour warranty claims. I can't wait for Ali Express to open more warehouses within the EU.

chang in alibaba doesnt want to send my thermal camera on the alibaba logistics, but its the only option that i have...
he seems to be actually trying to look for a solution
i am really confused by this one
>>107582173
cheng will open a warehouse in romania or some other cheap place for the chinkshit, dont worry

>>107582173
>>Basic DIY electric projects and repairs will become unaffordable
Start using Taobao agents. Superbuy and others are offering tax free shipping and you pay zero VAT for local government.

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>>107580880
which one to get sars

>>107580925
i've suspected that captchas are iq testing the population. it's pretty simple to achieve by determining each persons baseline where they solving or not.

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What the heck chang

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fellow eurotaxed citizens
What items are you stockpiling on for the coming chinktaxhell period?

>>107582539
Probably worth getting small stuff that's cheap but you regularly get. Like pen refills, batteries, markers, stuff like that. Also as >>107582173 said if you're into DIY electronics then cheap MCUs and passive components.
The thing is the changes won't make buying from china not worth it, they'd need to be MUCH worse for that to happen, they'll just piss me off a medium amount while changing little in terms of how much I actually buy.
The bag I recently got on ali was 15€, locally a similar one would cost me 45€ on the low end, more like 70€ from some stores, so their fee won't make me buy "local" (aka from china but with a stop in a warehouse in europe for a day or two)

>>107582328
>offering tax free shipping and you pay zero VAT for local government.
And how is that supposed to work exactly?

>>107582431
cute kittler

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Aliexpress keeps recommending this asuka figure to me, I really shouldn't buy it...
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005010101440580.html

>>107582661
dunno like for you but for me 3€ per item in package is a lot

I have a backlog of stuff I got and haven't posted about (unless I did and forgot...)

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what is this nigger shit?
ali can't afford to check if you've already used a coupon during check-out?
now i have to wait for my shit to get refunded before i can order again.

>>107584179
>>107582173
source? I thought it was per package not per item, that would be crazy.

>>107584468
no way is it per item. id riot.

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>>107584492
I'm going to kill myself or set something on fire
or myself
holy fuck why is this allowed to happen

>>107584468
https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2025/12/12/customs-council-agrees-to-levy-customs-duty-on-small-parcels-as-of-1-july-2026/
EU can't update IOSS to cover customs duty in a timely manner, but they can add 3€ fee instead.
Thanks EU!

>>107584599
what the fuck do we do now?

I barely even buy shit that's 3€. its usually way below that.
am I going to have to fly to china to buy shit now?

>>107580880
I can confirm the 12.52 PS4 blueray disc jailbreak works in case anyone is wondering.

>>107584179
Depends on how it will be implemented, also this is temporary and in 2028 they will just get rid of the 150€ customs free shit

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>>107584618
Screw IOSS and stop paying local VAT altogether, if EU really wants that instead. >>107582328

>>107584492
>>107584598
yeah idiot journos have not read law saying its PER ITEM and they pretend its per package maybe to sweep for EU fags.

>A Council source said the duty would apply per product type, based on six-digit tariff codes. This means 10 pairs of socks of the same type would incur a 3-euro charge, but five pairs of socks made from wool and five from cotton would count as two item types and incur a 6-euro charge.

bought chink Mister FPGA by Qmtech. besides noisy fan it works great. pretty affordable too. Really recommend for retro gaming

>>107582328
>>107584705
is that legal?

>>107584730
why do governments make everything in their power to make people hate them?
economy is shit, so people buy from china. instead of making local product more appealing they introduce literally fake penalties to force people to buy local...
except they don't sell this shit locally.
and if they do, I'm not fucking paying a X10 markup to cuck bezos.

>>107584730
Dear friend,
We used 930690 tariff code for all of your items to save your money.
T. Chong

chang will figure out how to get around this jewery, r-right?

>>107585082
warehouses in a shithole in the eu, as simple as that

>>107584886
>economy is shit, so people buy from china. instead of making local product more appealing they introduce literally fake penalties to force people to buy local..
To be fair it's REALLY hard to make local products more appealing in the timeframe of the usual legislature period. Adding penalties is easier and more immediate.

You'd need a genuine vision for where you want to be to do change the source of it, a sort of shared goal. I can't think of a single western country which currently has one, most of them are just trying to stop decay or in denial about the path and hoping for something to come along to turn things around easily (it won't).
Even their "anti establishment" parties don't have a vision, they at best have things they dislike and would stop or revert (immigration being the big one), but they all act on a level of critique, they don't have a positive (in the logic sense, not the moral sense) counterposition.

Anyways, lets' not talk politics, we have a containment board for that for a reason.

>>107584730
so if i buy a assortment bag of
>electronic components
i will only get taxes once, or will the eu fags open up the package, tax me x amount of different electronic components and stick one of those "impected by customs" yellow stickers on it?
asking for a fren, because if i have to pay $6 for a set of $0.65 resistors and $0.65 capacitors the eu its going to get real rough in regards to repairing electronics

>>107585098
wouldn't they have to pay for shipping stuff to the warehouse?